Poetry Flashcards
The word “poem”
Greek word “poíma”, wich means “work”.
The word poem is derived from:
The greek word “poieín” wich means “to make”
What does poetry uses to communicate?
It uses imaginative and musical language
What are the elements of poetry?
Speaker and tone
Speaker:
Character that speaks in or narrates the poem
Tone:
emotional attitude toward the reader
or toward the subject implied by a poem
Setting
time and place in which it occurs, together with all the details used to create a sense of a particular time and place.
Context
refers to the conditions in which the
poem occurs
sensory details
Poets often use it to create the setting
How does a setting in the poem is created?
by using sensory details, or words and phrases that describe how things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel
In what does the context focuses more?
It focuses more on the environment of the time and place
Common types of context
Cultural and historical
Figurative language
writing or speech that is meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally
metaphor
comparison in which one thing is written about as if it were another
Simile
comparison that uses lite or as
Personification
figure of speech in which an animal, a thing, a force of nature, or an idea is described as if it were human or is given human qualities
Sight and sound of poetry
Imagery, rhythm, rhyme
Imagery
Uses descriptive language to create a vivid picture in the mind of the reader and to appeal to the senses primarly sight but also sound, touch and taste
Rhythm
Pattern of beats or stresses in a line of poetry, it can be regular or irregular
Rhyme
Forms of poetry that use the repetition of sounds at the end of words
Meter
Regular rhythmic pattern
Internal rhyme
Occurs within lines
End rhyme
Occurs at the end of lines
slant rhyme
Use of words that do not rhyme exactly but have a similar sound
The slant rhyme is also called
Near rhyme
Rhyme scheme
pattern of end rhyme designated by assigning a different letter of the
alphabet to each rhyme
Poems can be divided into:
Stanzas, couplet, tercet or triplet, quatrain, quintet or quintain, sestet, septet, octave
What is the structure of a poem?
Is how the poem is divided
Form of the poem
A single poem most contain numerous recognizable elements. A poem may feature a set pattern of lines or syllables, end rhyme, strong rhythm and specialized sound devices
Aliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds, it can create a rhythm or sound pattern in poetry
What can create a rhythm or sound pattern in poetry?
Assonance
Poetry has many
Different types of poetry
What is the one thing that poems have in common
precision of language; each word of a poem is carefully chosen to convey a tone, viewpoint, and perception
of an object or an experience.
Tone
emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work
Literary context
Lyric poems express personal feelings
